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Journal Articles

  1. Di Wu, Xiang Sun, and Nirwan Ansari, ¡°An FSO-based Drone Charging System for Emergency Communicationss,¡± IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, accepted.

  2. Xiang Sun, Liangkun Yu, and Yin Yang. ¡°Jointly Optimizing User Clustering, Power Management, and Wireless Channel Allocation for NOMA based Internet of Things,¡± Digital Communications and Networks, early access, doi: 10.1016/j.dcan.2020.10.003.

  3. Yougan Chen, Xinrui Zhang, Xiang Sun, Yi Tao, and Xiaomei Xu, ¡°MF-HER: Marine Mammal-Friendly Based High Spectral-Efficient Routing for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,¡± IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 198624-198636, 2020

  4. Meihuang Wang, Yougan Chen, Xiang Sun, Fanggui Xiao and Xiaomei Xu, ¡°Node Energy Consumption Balanced Multi-Hop Transmission for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Based on Clustering Algorithm,¡± IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 191231-191241, 2020.

  5. Z. Gu, J. Zhang, X. Sun and Y. Ji, "Optimizing Networked Flying Platform Deployment and Access Point Association in FSO-based Fronthaul Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, early access doi: 10.1109/LWC.2020.2986406.

  6. D. Wu, X. Sun, and N. Ansari, "An FSO-based Drone Assisted Mobile Access Network for Emergency Communications," IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2019.2942266, early access.

  7. N. Ansari, D. Wu, X. Sun,  ¡°FSO as backhaul and energizer for drone-assisted mobile access networks", ICT Express, vol 6, no 2, pp. 139-144, 2020. (Invited Paper)

  8. X. Sun, N. Ansari, and R. Fierro, ¡°Jointly Optimized 3D Drone Mounted Base Station Deployment and User Association in Drone Assisted Mobile Access Networks,¡± IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 2195-2203, Feb. 2020.

  9. N. Feng and X. Sun, ¡°Implementation of network-coding approach for improving the BER performance in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-PON,¡± Optics Communications, vol. 462, pp. 125301, May 2020.

  10. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Green Cloudlet Network: A Sustainable Platform for Mobile Cloud Computing," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 180-192, 1 Jan.-March 2020.

  11. N. Feng and X. Sun, "Nyquist Four-level Pulse Amplitude Modulation Scheme (PAM4) based on Hierarchical Modulation in IM/DD-TDM PON with Hybrid Equalization," Optics Communications, vol. 457, pp. 124609, Feb. 2020.

  12. N. Feng and X. Sun, "Hierarchical modulation PAM4 with digital Nyquist pulse-shaped for flexible multi-ONU provisioning in IM/DD-TDM-PON", Optical Fiber Technology, Volume 53, pp. 102063, December 2019.

  13. Nirwan Ansari, Qiang Fan, Xiang Sun, and Liang Zhang, ¡°SoarNet,¡± IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 37-43, December 2019.

  14. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Adaptive Avatar Handoff in the Cloudlet Network," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 664-676, 1 July-Sept. 2019.

  15. Z. Gu, J. Zhang, Y. Ji, L. Bai, and X. Sun, "Network Topology Reconfiguration for FSO-Based Fronthaul/Backhaul in 5G+ Wireless Networks," in IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 69426-69437, 2018.

  16. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Dynamic Resource Caching in the IoT Application Layer for Smart Cities," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 606-613, April 2018.

  17. X. Sun and N. Ansari, "Traffic Load Balancing among Brokers at the IoT Application Layer," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 489-502, March 2018.

  18. N. Ansari and X. Sun, ¡°Mobile Edge Computing Empowers Internet of Things," IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E101-B, no. 3, pp. 604-619, March 2018. (Best Tutorial Paper Award).

  19. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Latency Aware Workload Offloading in the Cloudlet Network," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1481-1484, July 2017.

  20. Q. Fan, N. Ansari, and X. Sun, ¡°Energy Driven Avatar Migration in Green Cloudlet Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1601-1604, July 2017.

  21. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Green Cloudlet Network: A Distributed Green Mobile Cloud Network," IEEE Network, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 64-70, January/February 2017.

  22. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°EdgeIoT: Mobile Edge Computing for Internet of Things," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 22-29, December 2016.

  23. X. Sun, N. Ansari, and R. Wang, ¡°Optimizing Resource Utilization of a Data Center," IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 2822-2846, Fourth quarter 2016.

  24. X. Guo, L. Chu, and X. Sun, ¡°Accurate localization of multiple sources using semidefinite programming based on incomplete range matrix," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 16, no. 13, pp. 5319-5324, July, 2016.

  25. K. Guo, Y. Lu, Y. Li, and X. Sun, ¡°An Activity Recognition-assistance Algorithm based on Hybrid Semantic Model in Smart Home," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 12, no. 8, August 2016.

  26. J. Zhao, X. Sun, Z. Wei, and Z. Li, ¡°A New MAC Protocol for Moving Target in Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks," Wireless Sensor Network, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 62-72, 2011.

  27. J. Zhao, Z. Wei, Z. Li and X. Sun, ¡°An adaptive MAC protocol based on spatial and temporal correlation in wireless sensor networks," Journal of Communications, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 262-269, 2011.

Conference Papers

  1. Xiang Sun, Rana Albelaihi, and Zeinab Akhavan, ¡°Caching IoT Resources in Green Brokers at the Application Layer,¡± The Fifth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, November 11-13, 2020.

  2. D. Wu, X. Sun, and N. Ansari, "A Cooperative Drone Assisted Mobile Access Network for Disaster Emergency Communications," accepted.

  3. S. Zhang, X. Sun, and N. Ansari, ¡°Placing Multiple Drone Base Stations in Hotspots,¡± in 2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium, Newark, NJ, USA, 2018, pp. 1-6.

  4. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Jointly Optimizing Drone-Mounted Base Station Placement and User Association in Heterogeneous Networks,¡± 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, May 2018, in press.

  5. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Latency Aware Drone Base Station Placement in Heterogeneous Networks," in 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Singapore, December, 2017, pp. 1-6.

  6. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°PRIMAL: PRofIt Maximization Avatar pLacement for Mobile Edge Computing," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May, 2016, pp. 1-6 (Best Paper Award).

  7. X. Sun, N. Ansari and Q. Fan, ¡°Green Energy Aware Avatar Migration Strategy in Green Cloudlet Networks," in 2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), Vancouver, BC, 2015, pp. 139-146.

  8. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Energy-optimized Bandwidth Allocation Strategy for Mobile Cloud Computing in LTE Networks," in 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, LA, 2015, pp. 2120-2125.

  9. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Improving Bandwidth Efficiency and fairness ins cloud computing," in 2013 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Atlanta, GA, 2013, pp. 2313-2318.

  10. J. Zhao, X. Sun, Z. Li, H. Hou, and P. Sun, ¡°A novel date collision rate-aware energy model design with single-channel CSMA/CA MAC in Wireless Sensor Networks," in 2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET), Chengdu, 2010, pp. 483-486.

  11. J. Zhao, H. Li and X. Sun, ¡°Research on the Signal Random Attenuation Coefficient Based on RSSI in WSN Localization Technology," in 2009 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, Beijing, 2009, pp. 1-4.

  12. J. Zhao and X. Sun, ¡°MAC protocol based onc T-MAC multi-hop reservation for low-latency wireless sensor network," in 2008 11th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), Hangzhou, 2008, pp. 114-117.

Others

  1. X. Sun and N. Ansari, ¡°Cloudlet Networks: Empowering Mobile Networks with Computing Capabilities," IEEE COMSOC MMTC Communications-Frontiers, vol. 12, no. 4, July 2017.

Patent

  1. N. Ansari and X. Sun, ¡°Virtual machine placement in a heterogeneous data center,¡± US Patent No. 10,310,884, issued on Jun. 4, 2019.

  2. N. Ansari and X. Sun, ¡°Virtual machine resource utilization in a data center,¡± US Patent No. 10,102,025, filed on Oct. 16, 2018.

  3. N. Ansari and X. Sun, ¡°Management of bandwidth efficiency and fairness in cloud computing," US Patent No. 9,742,675, issued on Aug. 22, 2017.

Patent Application

  1. X. Sun, C. Wang, X. Li, Q. Ly, D. Seed, and H. Li, "Enabling Semantic Mashup in Internet of Things," US/PCT Non-Provisional Patent Application no. PCT/US2017/054274, filed on Sep. 29, 2017.

  2. X. Li, C. Wang, Q. Ly, and X. Sun, "Semantic Query Processing with Information Asymmetry," US/PCT Non-Provisional Patent Application no. PCT/US2018/016103, filed on Sep 29, 2017.

  3. X. Sun, C. Wang, Q. Ly, and X. Li, "Dynamic protocol switching," US/PCT Non-Provisional Patent Application no. PCT/US2018/013299, filed on Jan. 11, 2017.

  4. Q. Ly, C. Wang, X. Li, X. Sun, and M. Guo, "Resource-Directory to Resource-Directory Communications in CoAP," US/PCT Non-Provisional Patent Application no. US16/467,219, filed on Dec. 29, 2016.

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